Several front pages carry news of the new memoir to be published this autumn by Virginia Giuffre, who accused the Duke of York and Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse. The Daily Mail says the “bombshell” new book, which was completed before Giuffre took her own life in April, will contain “intimate, disturbing, and heartbreaking details”. The Daily Mirror reports Giuffre previously told the book’s co-author, the journalist Amy Wallace, that she wanted to shed light on “systemic failures” that allowed vulnerable individuals to be trafficked across borders. The Sun’s headline brands the book “Virginia’s revenge”. Prince Andrew has always denied Giuffre’s allegations.

The Times has a poll that suggests nearly three-quarters of voters believe Sir Keir Starmer is mishandling the issue of asylum seekers being housed in hotels. The paper says its YouGov survey is a sign of growing public concern about what the “crisis”. The Guardian highlights a number of politicians who have reported a sharp rise in the level of online harassment and death threats directed at them, with one MP calling it “worse than the Brexit years”. According to the i Paper, ministers want migrants who arrive on small boats to be the first to have fast-tracked asylum hearings, but it will take months for a new law to become operational.

The Daily Telegraph says Ukraine is being prevented by the Trump administration from firing long-range US-made missiles into Russia, in order to draw Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table. The Wall Street Journal first reported on Sunday that Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth had effectively been given final permission for any strike using the Atacms system. But the Telegraph says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky played down the restrictions, saying Ukraine had developed its own arsenal of long-range weapons and no longer needed to rely on American approval.

And the Daily Star is jubilant at the prospect of an August Bank Holiday Monday without any rain forecast on the UK mainland. The paper says Brits will “sizzle” in temperatures of up to 29C, making it “hotter than Morocco”.

Chinese property giant Evergrande’s shares were taken off the Hong Kong stock market on Monday after more than a decade and a half of trading.

It marks a grim milestone for what was once China’s biggest real estate firm, with a stock market valuation of more than $50bn (£37.1bn). That was before its spectacular collapse under the weight of the huge debts that had powered its meteoric rise.

Experts say the delisting was both inevitable and final.

“Once delisted, there is no coming back,” says Dan Wang, China director at political risk consultancy Eurasia Group.

Evergrande is now best-known for its part in a crisis that has for years dragged on the world’s second-largest economy.

Just a few years ago Evergrande Group was a shining example of China’s economic miracle.

Its founder and chairman Hui Ka Yan rose from humble beginnings in rural China to top the Forbes list of Asia’s wealthiest people in 2017.

His fortune has since plummeted from an estimated $45bn in 2017 to less than a billion, his fall from grace as extraordinary as his company’s.

In March 2024, Mr Hui was fined $6.5m and banned from China’s capital market for life for his company overstating its revenue by $78bn.

Liquidators are also exploring whether they can recover cash for creditors from Mr Hui’s personal property.

At the time of its collapse, Evergrande had some 1,300 projects under development in 280 cities across China.

The sprawling empire also included an electric carmaker and China’s most successful football team, Guangzhou FC, which was kicked out of the football league earlier this year after failing to pay off enough of its debts.

Evergrande was built on $300bn (£222bn) of borrowed money, earning it the unenviable title of the world’s most indebted property developer.

The rot set in after Beijing brought in new rules in 2020 to control the amount big developers could borrow.

The new measures led Evergrande to offer its properties at major discounts to ensure money was coming in to keep the business afloat.

Struggling to meet interest payments, the firm soon defaulted on some of its overseas debts.

After years of legal wrangling, the Hong Kong High Court ordered the company to be wound up in January 2024.

Evergrande’s shares had been under threat of delisting ever since because they were suspended from trading after the court order.

By that point the crisis engulfing the firm had wiped more than 99% from its stock market valuation.

The liquidation order came after the company was unable to offer a workable plan to shed billions of dollars of overseas liabilities.

Earlier this month, liquidators revealed that Evergrande’s debts currently stand at $45bn and that it had so far sold just $255m of assets. They also said they believe a complete overhaul of the business “will prove out of reach”.

The “delisting now is surely symbolic but it’s such a milestone,” Ms Wang says.

All that remains is which creditors are paid and how much they can get in the bankruptcy process, says Professor Shitong Qiao from Duke University.

The next liquidation hearing is due to take place in September.

China is facing a number of major problems, including US President Donald Trump’s tariffs, high local government debt, weak consumer spending, unemployment and an ageing population.

But experts say Evergrande’s collapse, along with the serious problems faced by other developers, has hit the country hardest.

“The property slump has been the biggest drag on the economy, and the ultimate reason why consumption is suppressed,” Ms Wang says.

This is particularly problematic as the industry accounted for about a third of the Chinese economy and was a major source of income for local governments.

“I don’t think China has found a viable alternative to support its economy at a similar scale,” Professor Qiao says.

The property crisis has led to “massive layoffs” by heavily-indebted developers, Jackson Chan from financial markets research platform Bondsupermart says.

And many real estate industry employees that kept their jobs have seen big pay cuts, he adds.

The crisis is also having a major impact on many households as they tend to put their savings into property.

With housing prices dropping by at least 30%, many Chinese families have seen their savings fall in value, says Alicia Garcia-Herrero, chief economist for Asia Pacific at French bank Natixis.

This means they are less likely to spend and invest, she adds.

In response, Beijing has announced a raft of initiatives aimed at reviving the housing market, stimulating consumer spending and boosting the wider economy.

They range from measures to help new home owners and support the stock market to incentives to buy electric cars and household goods.

Despite the hundreds of billions of dollars Beijing has poured into the economy, China’s once-blistering growth has eased to “around 5%”.

While most Western countries would be more than happy with that, it’s slow for a country that saw growth of more than 10% a year as recently as 2010.

In short, probably not.

Even as Evergrande continues to grab headlines, several other Chinese property firms are still facing major challenges.

Earlier this month, China South City Holdings was handed a winding up order by Hong Kong’s High Court, making it the biggest developer to be forced into liquidation since Evergrande.

Meanwhile, rival real estate giant Country Garden is still trying to secure a deal with its creditors to write off more than $14bn of outstanding foreign debt.

After a series of postponements, its next High Court liquidation hearing in Hong Kong is due to take place in January 2026.

“The whole property sector has been in trouble. More Chinese property firms will collapse,” Professor Qiao says.

While the Chinese government has taken a number of measures to help shore up the property market and support the economy as a whole it has not swooped in to directly bail out developers.

Mr Chan says these initiatives seem to be having a positive impact on the property market: “We think the bottom [has been reached] and it should be in a slow recovery. However, we probably don’t expect the recovery to be very strong.”

Wall Street investment giant Goldman Sachs warned in June that property prices in China will continue to fall until 2027.

Ms Wang agrees, and estimates that China’s stricken property market will “hit the bottom” in around two years when demand finally catches up with supply.

But Ms Garcia-Herrero puts it in starker terms: “there is no real light at the end of the tunnel.”

Beijing has sent a “clear message on its intention of not bailing out the housing sector,” Ms Wang adds.

The Chinese government has been careful to avoid the kind of measures that could encourage further risky behaviour by an already heavily indebted industry.

And while in the boom times, the property market was a key driver of China’s economic growth, the ruling Communist Party’s priorities now lie elsewhere.

President Xi Jinping is more focussed on high-tech industries like renewable energy, electric cars and robotics.

As Ms Wang puts it, “China is in a deep transition to a new age of development.”

A dream trip to Scotland ended in tragedy for Chris Strong’s family.

His wife Katie had travelled from the US to the Highlands with her brother and their mother to visit locations from their favourite TV show, Outlander.

But they never came home. All three were killed in a crash on the notorious A9 in August 2022.

Their deaths were another statistic in the grim history of Scotland’s longest trunk road.

A total of 48 people have lost their lives on the 113-mile stretch between Inverness and Perth in the last 10 years.

The road regularly changes from single to dual carriageway. Drivers can often be seen driving at excessive speeds to overtake lines of slower-moving vehicles, and at certain junctions cars have to turn right across traffic coming the other way.

The work to dual the remaining single-carriageway sections was originally due to be finished by 2025 – but that deadline has slipped by a decade to 2035.

Chris Strong, who lives in Chicago with the couple’s three daughters, has told BBC Alba’s Eòrpa programme of the painful lasting impact of the deaths.

He said his wife Katie was “the glue that held all the great elements of our families together”.

“She was beautiful, and she was the hardest working person I’d ever met,” he said.

“She never sat still and was so ambitious and was always learning and always in school. She was always taking care of people.”

Chris, a photographer, says he keeps memories of Katie and her family alive.

“We try to talk about her a lot. I feel like she’s still a presence in our home.”

Katie was 46 when she visited Scotland with her 45-year-old brother, Jared Bastion, and their mother, Mary-Lou Mauch.

They were all fans of Outlander, which they had watched together while caring for their late father David while he suffered with dementia.

During their trip they had visited Culloden Battlefield near Inverness, one of the locations from the show.

They were on a single carriageway section of the A9 south of Aviemore when their car was involved in a collision with a lorry.

Mary-Lou and Jared died at the scene. Katie, who was driving the car, died in hospital four days later.

The lorry driver was not hurt.

Chris said: “I don’t know why it happened.

“She was going to make a right-hand turn off of the A9, and she turned right in front of a lorry.”

Chris got the next plane to Scotland after he found out about the crash.

Katie was receiving treatment in a hospital in Dundee.

Chris said: “I was able to get there in time to see her. She was on a ventilator.

“I got to spend maybe 24 hours with her.

“Then they did tests and determined that she was not going to come back.”

Others have experienced tragedy on the A9 first-hand.

Ronnie Weir, who lives only a few metres away from the road in Dowally, Perthshire, was involved in an accident in April 2017.

He was driving home from Pitlochry when a car came towards him on the wrong side of the road. They collided head-on.

The driver of the other vehicle had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died at the wheel before the crash.

Ronnie, who suffered leg injuries, said he felt the effects of the accident every day.

“The trauma which an accident causes is horrendous. Sometimes it is difficult to speak about it,” he said.

Lorry driver Elaine MacKenzie is a regular user of the road – and says she prays every time she sets out on the A9.

She said: “I pray for myself, for my lorry, but also for everyone else with me too – for everyone on the A9, but especially for the lorries.”

Elaine believed there were lots of factors behind accidents on the A9.

She said some drivers did not understand the road signs, while others tried to overtake her lorry in dangerous places.

“If the road was dualled all the way from Inverness to Perth it would be very different,” she added.

“Because then cars could overtake me if they wanted, and you wouldn’t have to be worried.”

A total of 48 people died between 2014 and 2024 after collisions on the A9 between Inverness and Perth, according to Scottish government data which Eòrpa received through Freedom of Information.

More than 80% of those who lost their lives had been on parts of the road that were not dual carriageway.

Over the same 10 years, 558 other people were involved in collisions. More than 80% of them were on sections which were not dualled.

The SNP made a commitment in 2007 to dual the A9 from Inverness to Perth, and in 2011 the Scotish government set a target date of 2025.

But in February 2023, ministers admitted that finishing the £3bn project by then was “unachieveable”.

Ten months later, the government said that completing the work had been delayed by 10 years until 2035.

At the time the transport secretary, Mairi McAllan, said that a new rolling programme of improvements was “achievable” and there would be “no let up” in the work.

Two sections of single carriageway totalling 11 miles (18km) of road have been upgraded over the past decade – but 77 miles of the route has still to be dualled.

A9 Dual Action Group campaigner Laura Hansler, who lives near the road where it passes through the Cairngorms, said she knew the road building project was complex.

But she added: “Every time there is a delay… you’re basically going to cause someone else and another family to lose their loved one on this road.”

Transport Secretary Fiona Hyslop said she understood there were frustrations around the dualling of the road.

“Any loss of a life on the A9, or indeed other roads in Scotland, is a tragedy in and of itself,” she said

“Road safety is something I take extremely seriously.”

She said the government was not just waiting for the dulling to take place, and had invested £5m in interim, shorter-term road safety issues on the A9.

“The dualling in and of itself will help on road safety and that’s one of the reasons that we’ve embarked on it,” she said.

Hyslop said circumstances beyond the Scottish government’s control had affected the project, including Brexit – the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union – and the Covid pandemic.

But she added: “We have a plan, we’re meeting our milestones.”